This blog is about a writing project for my college English 301 class. The first topic we were assigned to discuss is about the rhetorical situation. The rhetorical situation is basically the reason behind why people write using purpose, text, audience, author, and context. I am going to discuss why I am using a blog as my WAW project for this class using the rhetorical situation.
My purpose for using a blog as my medium is because I want to be a writer someday, in the far and distant future. I need to be comfortable with my writing being out in the open for anyone to read or comment on. As I stated earlier I want this blog to actually work, because it is important as a writer to have some constant goal for your writing. This is a project for my college English class so I will follow through with this blog because I will have a reason for an end result (a good grade in English).
My audience would be anyone who might need motivation to write or wants to learn more about different topics in writing.
The author is me, Kelsey. I bet you're glad I cleared that one up for you, just in case you didn't know who was writing this superb blog post.
The text would be the blog. This is where I will be putting all my thoughts/opinions/statements on any of the prompts we get in English for this WAW project.
The context of this project in a historical sense is to show how much the internet has changed the way we work as people. I wanted to use a blog because it shows how far technology has come and how it has dramatically changed the course of writing. We, as people, have a more free form now of voicing our opinions on a certain subject matter. We have websites were we can post stories about our favorite celebrities or talk to are friends who live in a completely different timezone. The internet has changed us all, whether we chose to admit it or not. History itself is changed everyday with the use of the internet. I could not be writing my college homework on a blog if the time was 1942 instead of 2012. The social focus of this blog is to showcase how people interact using the internet. I am writing my thoughts on a writing project but other people blog about cooking, reading, television shows, fashion, just about anything and everything under the sun. This blog is an example of the social aspect of today's society.
This is an important topic that reverts back to real world discussions. The internet is a part of everyone's daily lives. Most of the population has iphones or blackberries that allows you to check your email, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram at any time in the day. There's even an app that I could post this blog on from my iphone. My point is that since the world has such easy access to the internet in this century why not challenge the students of today to take complete advantage of that. If more students, middle school, high school, or college aged, could use the internet to voice there opinions in a positive light then the internet wouldn't get such a bad rap for simply being a useful tool.
For example, I can write this English project on a blog, which gives me a chance to get a break from the normal, sometimes boring, formal college essay. If more students could voice there opinions in a free matter, such as a blog, and be encouraged by there teachers and professors to do such work, there would be more writing and less complaining. In my opinion, students of today's society don't get to voice there opinions in a positive way because no one is there to push them to do it. Let's face it, teenagers are lazy, they aren't going to do something unless someone forces them to do it and then maybe they'll find a way to enjoy writing and teachers everywhere can breath a peaceful sigh of relief.
There will be 10 entries in this blog series about Writing about Writing. Fingers crossed that this one will go well and I can grace this wonderful world of the web with my presence once again for a future blog when this one is finished.
Have a lovely day, always remember to stop and enjoy the sunshine.
~Kelsey
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